As was customary at the time, it was as much like a modern club meeting as like a modern convention. Art Widner was in charge (and announced that the formal program originally scheduled had been dropped) and R. D. Swisher was sergeant-at-arms (why?). The had a long talk about the NFFF, played a recording with a Christmas message from Los Angeles fans, spent much time poring over the detailed Swisher files, and ate. Widner announced results of his latest poll, and "tried to guide a discussion of how the NFFF could be prevented from falling into heresy and schisms."

This was part of the first series of Boskones. They had been forgotten by the 1960s when the modern Boskone started, so the modern series again started at 1. To distinguish, first series Boskones use Roman numerals, and modern Boskones use Arabic numerals.